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Weekly Report - 14 September 2004
PARAGUAY: Landowners threaten to resist 'invasions'
Paraguayan landowners are threatening to take matters into their own hands if the government continues to maintain a hands-off stance towards the string of land 'invasions' that have been taking place over the past few weeks. President Nicanor Duarte has called a halt to evictions and asked landowners to seek an agreement with the landless peasants.
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- ARGENTINA: Legal scholars slam hasty anticrime measures
- PARAGUAY: Landowners threaten to resist 'invasions'
- Tracking trends
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- COSTA RICA: Finance minister & chief of staff trigger cabinet crisis
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- HONDURAS: Maduro cuts funding for Parlacen
- Tracking trends
- MEXICO: Fox seeks rapprochement with López Obrador
- MEXICO: Minister ruled in contempt of land ruling
- Tracking trends
- Inflation in the region
- The stockmarket in figures
- Exchange rates
- Pinochet's secret police 'never tortured or disappeared anyone'
- Quotes of the week